More than 99.9 per cent of this is made up of content words but these account for less than half of the words we use. This split is comparable in other languages. Function words are both short and ...

Function words include articles, pronouns or prepositions, whereas content words, include nouns, verbs and adjectives. The findings show that babies are able to understand grammatical construction ...

Content vs. Function Words. As Schoolhouse Rock taught us, pronouns are words like we, you, and it that stand in for longer names or phrases.